Developmental Tasks Towards a Cultural Analysis of Human Development

Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions. The concept of developmental task is introduced, stressing contexts within which in...

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Other Authors: ter Laak, Jan J.F. (Editor), Heymans, Peter G. (Editor), Podol'skij, Andrei I. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One: The Explanation of Development: The Concept Developmental Task
  • 1 Developmental Tasks: A Cultural Analysis of Human Development
  • 2 Bridging the Gap Between Developmental and Learning Studies: The Concept of Developmental Tasks
  • 3 The Theory of Vygotsky and his School and Developmental Tasks
  • 4 Assessment of Child Development: Vygotsky’s Age-Related Approach
  • 5 Personal Age Development as the Object of Psychological Investigation
  • 6 Paradoxes in Learning and Development
  • Two: Developmental Tasks and Social Interaction
  • 7 Children’s Acquisition of the Concept of Mind and the Assignment of a Moral Status to Others: Learning from Social Interaction in Real and Artificial Cognitive Systems
  • 8 The Role of Interaction in Mental Action Formation
  • 9 The Influence of Folk Psychology on a Baby’s Personality
  • 10 The Child’s Initiative in Building up Cooperation: The Key to Problems of Children’s Independence
  • 11 Adult Egocentrism and Adult-Child Interaction
  • 12 Adolescent Sociometric Status in a Developmental Task Perspective
  • Three: Developmental Tasks. Specific Competences
  • 13 Task Attitude of Preschoolers: Developmental Diagnosis
  • 14 Preschoolers’ Acquirement of Competences in Factor Combining and Factor Interaction
  • 15 Information Integration of 6 to 12 Year Olds in Distributive Justice
  • 16 Acquirement of Illness Concepts: Perception and Evaluation of Physical Sensations
  • 17 Development of Concepts of Truth and Lying: A Developmental Task
  • 18 The Self-Image as a Determinant of Moral Behavior in Children
  • 19 Moral Culture in Institutions and Individuals’ Moral Performance: The Need for Moral Developmental Tasks
  • 20 Wisdom as High Level Epistemic Cognition & Aging: A Developmental Task Analysis